The last words of Melissa Doi have eternal
presence that will FOREVER remind us of liberty's eternal
vigilance against global tyranny... political, religious and any
combination, such as religious/political Islam.

Dar al Islam

The tyranny of the global Muslim Ummah (global commune)

Allah

The tyranny of the only Islamic moon god (al ilah = deity, god)

Muhammad

The tyranny of his only self-proclaimed prophet

Islam

The tyranny of the self-proclaimed religion of peace (without opposition)

that demands submission--or death

Sharia

The tyranny of Islamic fundamentalist, supremacist law

From the Ka'bah ilahs (gods) in Mecca,

Muhammad chose only one al-ilah (al = the / ilah = god = Allah) for his new
monotheistic religion

The ONLY“I Am” Deity whose Hebrew
name is (יהוה-yhwh = HE IS) Yahuwah

is NOT the al ilah (god) whose Arabic title is also his name (al ilah = the god) Allah

Thank you Geert Wilders

Thank you for giving the last recorded words
of the Young Ladyeternal presence on the
ideological long march against the made up ilah (god) Allah, his
self-proclaimed prophet Muhammad and the intellectually shallow and irrational
religion of Islam (submission) that without
shame practices evil taqiyya (dissembling deception) with deadly
results.

Her last recorded words have eternal presence that will remind us of the
eternal vigilance against the dhimmi danger that America faces
from fellow traveler apologists for the self-proclaimed religion of peace
(peace without opposition), and bend over backwards shallow thinking
dhimmitude in the U. S. State Department.

The Qur'an of the crescent moon ilah (god) Allah inspired
the Islamic (submissive) mindset that caused the early death of almost
3,000 people, including Melissa Doi, the Young Lady whose lastwords will live forever to remind
us of the dhimmi danger America and the world face from the Islamic
fundamentalists who are top-rung-of-the-ladder Muslim (submitter) true believers of Islam (submission)
and shariah (law), which is radical.

The Fundamentalist Islam Is Radical

Evil is fundamental to shariah and Islam (submission). Convert, or pay the dhimmi
jizya tax… or die.

Convert or die?

THAT is evil

THAT is radical

THAT is shariah

THAT is Islam

THAT is fundamentalist Islam.

Shariah law being superior to all other law is
fundamental to Islam, and the penalty for breaking the law of Islam is death.

·Accept shariah law… or die.

·Believe in the superiority of shariah law… or
die.

·Convert and submit to shariah law… or die.

Convert or die?

THAT is evil

THAT is radical

THAT is shariah

THAT is Islam

THAT is fundamentalist Islam

Being a “moderate” Muslim (submitter) about the supremacy of shariah
law is NOT Islam.

Being a “moderate” Muslim (submitter) about conversion away from
shariah law is NOT Islam.

·Convert to Islam (submission) and shariah law and become a Muslim (submitter)… or die.

·Do not convert away from being a Muslim (submitter) and from Islam (submission) and shariah law… or die.

·If you do not want to convert and become a
Muslim (submitter) you must pay the
dhimmi (protected submissive lower class)
jizya tax… or die.

Convert or die?

THAT is evil

THAT is radical

THAT is shariah

THAT is Islam

THAT is fundamentalist Islam

The fundamentalist radical spirit of Islam
which demands “convert or die” is evil.

“What is it that radicalizes Muslims,
including American Muslims? Is it

·American foreign policy?

·Israeli “occupation” of the ancient Jewish
territories of Judea and Samaria?

·Cartoons depicting the warrior-prophet as a
warrior?

·Korans torched by obscure Florida pastors?

·The life of Osama bin Laden, or, perhaps, his
death?

·Any of a thousand claimed slights, real or
imagined, that purportedly provoke young Muslims to “conflagrate” … .

“Here is the unsettling but sedulously
avoided truth: What radicalizes Muslims is Islam.

“We must further note that the fact that
Islam itself is the radicalizing catalyst does not mean that all, or even most,
Muslims will become radicals.

“But here is another disquieting truth: Even
the terms “radicalization” and “radical Islam” get things exactly backwards.

“The reality is that the radicals in Islam are the
reformers — the Muslims who embrace Western civilization, its
veneration of reason in matters of faith, and the pluralistic space it makes
for civil society.

“What we wishfully call “radicalism” is in fact
the Islamic mainstream.”

Read more here about the following Nonie Darwish quote on 10-02-2011

[http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=351181 ]

“Islam

is a poison to a society.

It's divisive.

It's hateful,

Darwish told the Florida rally.

Islam

should be feared, and

should be fought, and

should be conquered, and

defeated and

annihilated, and

it's going to happen.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Islam is going to be brought down. ...

Because

Islam is based on lies and

it's not based on the truth.

I have no doubt whatsoever that

Islam is going to be destroyed.

Criticizing Sharia,

Islamic law and

other radical laws against

women,

Jews and

non-Muslims

is a crime against Islam in Shariah,

she concluded, and CAIR has convinced some
Americans that it's a crime in America also.”

"If anyone criticizes the ideology of
Islam, jihad and Shariah, CAIR spins it to an attack on the Muslim people,
confusing the American people between criticism of an ideology and being a
racist against a whole group of people," Darwish told WND.

"I hope that the American people are
more intelligent than to fall for this kind of childish spin."

Read Nonie Darwish's insider look at living
under Shariah law in "Cruel and Usual Punishment,"

Taghut...
anything or anyone that is worshipped or followed or obeyed... other than Allah

Islam's Hatred of the Non-Muslim

[
http://www.meforum.org/3545/islam-hatred-non-muslim ]

by David BukayMiddle East Quarterly
Summer 2013, pp. 11-20

(view PDF [ http://www.meforum.org/meq/pdfs/3545.pdf ] )

It is accepted as a
truism by many liberals and multiculturalists and touted by much of the Western
media that the "clash of civilizations" between the West and the
Islamic world is a clash of values between a secular, tolerant, post-Christian
world and a minority (albeit a large one) of Muslims, fundamentalists, and
literalists who pervert the meaning of their faith-traditions. The Qur'anic
verse, "There is no compulsion in religion,"[1] is frequently invoked to prove that Islam is not the
intolerant, subjugating religion that Islamist clerics like Yusuf Qaradawi or
terrorists like Osama bin Laden make it out to be. The belief is that
"Islam," as former president George W. Bush said not long after the
9-11 attacks, "is peace."[2]

But what if Bush's
statement, along with the mainstream view, ignores the reality of Islam's
central tenets? Are the Islamists' beliefs really only a warped minority
position or are they a truer reflection of the inherent nature of the Muslim
faith-system? Can the West ever reach a modus vivendi with an Islam that
by its very nature considers Western civilization an unclean "other"
that must be brought into the orbit of Islam through subjugation at best or
destruction at worst?

See the ad:

[ http://www.meforum.org/3545/islam-hatred-non-muslim
]

Despite attempts to
reframe the meaning of jihad for Western audiences, as in this ad on a Chicago
bus, classic Muslim commentators are clear: Jihad reflects the normal relations
existing between the believers and the infidel. Islam sees jihad as the means
of creating peace by subjugating all others and enforcing Islamic order. A pax
Islamica covering the globe is the aim of jihad, which is thus a just war.

A closer examination
of Islam's central tenets is called for, one that gets past the feel-good
nostrums of multiculturalism and that engages the Muslim belief-system on its
own terms, beginning with one of the most fundamental of those tenets, the
doctrine of al-Wala wal-Bara (love and hate for the sake of God).

Love and Hate for the Sake of Allah

In the introduction to
the 2005 exposition of al-Wala wal-Bara by Muhammad Qahtani, Sheikh
Abdar Razaq Afifi, deputy president of the Department of Guidance and a member
of the Board of Great Ulema of Saudi Arabia, declares:

The subject matter is
of paramount importance and utmost interest: Firstly, it is concerned with one
of Islam's main foundations, which has two major prerequisites of true faith: al-Wala
is a manifestation of sincere love for Allah, his prophet and the believers; al-Bara
is an expression of enmity and hatred toward falsehood and its adherents. Both
are evidence of true faith. Secondly, it has been written at a very crucial
time where Muslims are no longer aware of those qualities which distinguish the
believers from the nonbelievers; their faith has become so weak; and they have
taken the disbelievers as their friends while displaying enmity toward the
believers.[3]

Qahtani's English
publisher adds the following:

It is impossible to
provide a literal translation in English of the al-Wala wal-Bara, but
the meaning of this Arabic term indicated, on the one hand, drawing near to
what is pleasing to Allah and His Messenger and, on the other hand, withdrawing
from what is displeasing to Allah and His Messenger.[4]

Al-Wala
wal-Bara means then total
loyalty to Islam and total disavowal of anything else. It is one of Islam's
main foundations and is of paramount importance, second only to Tawhid,
acknowledgement of the oneness of God. Total allegiance and love are only to be
given within the Islamic community, and rejection, hate, and enmity against the
other is commanded, based upon Qur'anic foundations:

Say: "If you love
Allah then follow me that Allah may love you and forgive your faults… Allah
does not love the infidels. … They are the residents of Hell, and will there
forever abide."[5]

Al-Wala
wal-Bara doctrine originated
in the pre-Islamic Arab tribal system from which it was passed on to the umma
(Islamic community). The constructs of love and loyalty were extended to the family
and the hamula (clan) while suspicion and hatred was directed toward
those outside the clan, the "other" who did not embrace Muhammad's
teachings. The Islamic umma has evolved into a super-tribe by way of
religious linkage.[6]

The medieval exegete
Ibn Taymiya (1263-1328 C.E.), one of the authorities cited most by Wahhabis and
Salafists, expressed al-Wala wal-Bara this way:

Whoever loves for the
sake of Allah, and hates for the sake of Allah, and whoever seals a friendship
for His sake, or declares an enmity for His sake, will receive the protection
of Allah. No one may taste true faith except by this even if his prayers and
fasts are many.[7]

A real-world
application of this conceptual framework was provided by Abdul Aziz bin
Abdullah bin Baz, formerly chief mufti of Saudi Arabia, who issued a fatwa
(religious ruling) before the 2003 Iraq war prohibiting seeking help from the
infidels (kuffar) in jihad and urging Muslims to hate non-Muslims and
show animosity toward them.[8]

Islam and Infidels

The issue of the
Muslim's relationship with the infidel is one of the most important in Islam.
The amount of attention devoted to the infidel is huge: 64 percent of the total
Qur'an addresses that relationship while 81 percent of the Sira (chronological
biographies of Muhammad) and 37 percent of the Hadith (sayings attributed to
Muhammad) focus on this as well. In sum, nearly two thirds of Shari'a (Islamic
law) is devoted to the infidel.[9]

What comes through clearly
by examining this subject is that Islam is not about universal brotherhood, as
is often claimed, but about the brotherhood of believers, members of the umma.[10] The flip-side of this is a total denunciation of the
"other."[11] There are more than four hundred verses in the Qur'an
alone that describe the torment in hell that Allah has prepared for the
infidel. The Qur'an dehumanizes infidels: They are vile animals and beasts, the
worst of creatures and demons;[12] perverted
transgressors and partners of Satan[13] to be fought until religion is Allah's alone.[14] They are to be beheaded;[15] terrorized,[16] annihilated,[17] crucified,[18] punished, and expelled,[19] and plotted against by deceit.[20] Believers must be in a constant state of war with the
infidel.[21]

According to Ibn
Taymiya:

Since lawful warfare
is essentially jihad and since its aim is that the religion is entirely for
Allah [2:189, 8:39] and the word of Allah is uppermost [9:40], therefore,
according to all Muslims, those who stand in the way of this aim must be
fought. Whosoever contends with Muhammad deserves death.[22]

The Qur'anic pedigree
for this view is unambiguous. In the spirit of al-Wala wal-Bara, Muslims
are to be compassionate with one another but ruthless to the infidel.
The infidels must not be taken as friends. "Hostility and hate" exist
between them forever until the infidel "believe in Allah alone."[23] They are a hated and cursed people; vile and evil-doers;[24] disgraced and
misguided.[25] Even one's relatives should not be taken as friends if
they are not Muslim.[26] As Bernard Lewis has put it:

Islam is still the
ultimate criterion of group identity and loyalty. It is Islam that
distinguishes between self and other, between insider and outsider, between
brother and stranger … the ultimate definition of the other, the alien outsider
and presumptive enemy, has been the kafir [infidel].[27]

Other Religions

The Qur'an says that
all other religions are cursed by Allah.[28] All those who join idols[29] or false gods to Allah,[30] or invent lies about Him,[31] or deny Allah,[32] or change even one word of Allah's book,[33] or do not believe in Allah's messenger Muhammad[34] are to be "seized wherever found and slain with a
slaughter."[35]

Judaism and
Christianity are rejected and not acceptable to God since he has sent his final
messenger to the entire world, who has revealed their errors. To love God is to
reject those who reject Him.

O believers do not
hold Jews and Christians as your allies. They are allies of one another; and
anyone who makes them his friends is surely one of them; and Allah does not
guide the unjust.[36]

The practical
applications of this are delineated by the Hadith:

Narrated Ibn Umar:
Allah's apostle said: "I have been ordered to fight against the people
until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that
Muhammad is Allah's apostle."[37]

There are
approximately seven hundred verses in more than fifty Qur'anic suras that have
direct and explicit negative references to the Jews; together with the other
major books of Islam, they comprise in total 9 percent of the total Shari'a.[38] The characterizations employed against Jews are situated
in the attitude toward the "other" that al-Wala wal-Bara
perpetuates.

Jews are cursed
forever,[39] having been
transformed into apes and swine[40] (or apes alone).[41] The ultimate sin committed by the Jews is that they are
the devil's minions,[42] and if they do not
accept the true faith of Islam, they will burn in hellfire.[43] Jews conceal the truth, being "the vilest of all
creatures,"[44] most wicked with hearts harder than stones.[45] By perverting the words of God, Jews corrupted the
scriptures and killed the prophets.[46] Jews are "fond of lies," "devour the
forbidden," and are "cowards, vulgar, and fools."[47] They are the worst of God's creation; rats are, in fact,
"mutated Jews."[48] From an operational standpoint, the Hadith takes these
views and offers a prescription for their application (albeit sometime in the
future):

The hour will not be
established until you fight the Jews, and the stone and the tree behind which a
Jew will be hiding will say: "O Muslim! O Servant of Allah, there is a Jew
hiding behind me, so come and kill him."[49]

As for Christianity,
Islam believes that it is a corrupted and distorted religion based on myths and
legends. Jesus is a Muslim prophet; Christ's divinity is a blasphemy and thus
the foundations of Christianity are false.[50] Christians have invented lies about God[51] by ascribing partners
to Him, which is the worst of sins.[52] For that, they too are condemned forever to Hell.[53] Jesus will one day come back and destroy Christianity by
breaking the cross, and on the Day of Judgment, he will be a witness against
them.[54]

As a final act before
his death, Muslim tradition claims that Muhammad ordered an ethnic cleansing of
Jews and Christians from Arabia.[55] Whether that took place under the auspices of the Muslim
prophet or happened in some other fashion, the reality is that Jews have been
banished from the territory of Arabia and that Saudi Arabia—the modern
nation-state that occupies that peninsula—bars all Jews from dwelling in its
borders to this day.

Supremacy of the Muslim and the Way of War

The logical outcome of
this world-view is the Islamic imperative to subjugate the world through the
establishment of a universal umma.[56] Since Allah's word (as transmitted by Muhammad) is
inherently superior,[57] man-made laws are
intrinsically sinful and must be replaced by the Shari'a. It would be wicked
and embracing al-Bara to permit humanity to ignore the perfect law of Allah,
and thus it is a religious duty to create the most perfect world by political
or other means.[58]

As Islam is the
perfect religious system, consisting of God's wisdom from the beginning of time
and thus above and beyond all other religions,[59] Muslims are the best
of all peoples, and their reward is a luxurious life in Paradise.[60]Dawa,[61] often translated as
"preaching" or "teaching," is more literally an
"invitation" to humanity to accept Islam as the only true religion
and submit to its dictates.[62] Alternatives, such as allowing others to wallow in their
ignorance, would essentially be doing the opposite of al-Wala wal-Bara,
something no good Muslim (who knows better about the superiority of his faith)
should do.

The imperative that
flows from this is that killing or being killed for the sake of Islam is a
hallowed duty:

Behold, Allah has
bought of the believers their lives and their possessions, promising them
paradise in return, [and so] they fight in Allah's cause, and slay, and are
slain: a promise which in truth He has willed upon Himself in [the words of]
the Torah, and the Gospel, and the Qur'an. And who could be more faithful to
his covenant than Allah?[63]

Being God's chosen
people, Muslims need have no guilt or remorse toward the infidels. The world is
divided into two distinct realms: Dar al-Islam (the house of submission)
and Dar al-Harb (the house of the sword), and the normal and only
justified relationship between the two is a state of perpetual war. There can
be no peace with non-Muslims, only temporary truces.[64] Islam's concept of a just war is any war directed
against the infidels, whatever its causes and circumstances, since fighting the
infidel is always morally justified and religiously legitimized.

Jihad reflects the
normal relations existing between the believers and the infidel. Islamic wars
are futuhat, derived from the Arabic root for "open" in the
sense that they open the world to the call of Islam; wars instigated by the
infidel are hurub, derived from the Arabic root for "anger."
Any territory conquered during jihad by Muslims is waqf, never to be
returned, while territory conquered by the infidel is considered occupation
that must be returned by force.[65] By this reasoning, territorial expansion through war by
Muslim forces is not aggression but fulfillment of the Qur'anic command to
disseminate Islam.

Islam then sees war as
the means of creating peace by subjugating all others and enforcing Islamic
order. A pax Islamica covering the globe is the aim of jihad, and
therefore, it is a just war. A hudna or truce does not imply the
abandonment of jihad but rather a suspension of hostilities, a dormant status
from which a leader may revive fighting at any time at his will.[66] For the Muslim, a permanent peace is a theological state
to be achieved for the sake of the good (al-Wala) rather than a
political one, which is no more than a temporary truce to gain strategic
advantage.

Love, Hate, and Prayer

Five times a day,
Muslims declare their total allegiance and submission to God by reciting the
opening verses of the Qur'an. While the first six verses seem unobjectionable,
verses 6 and 7 take on a different complexion in light of the doctrine of al-Wala
wal-Bara:

[6] Guide us to the
straight path, [7] the path of those whom you have favored, not of those
against whom there is wrath, nor of those have gone astray.

One of the earliest
Qur'anic exegetes, al-Tabari (838-923), explained in his Commentary on the
Qur'an that "those against whom there is wrath" are the Jews
while "those who have gone astray" are the Christians.[67]

This view is
maintained to this day as can be seen in recent translations of the Qur'an by
al-Hilali and Khan endorsed by the Saudi government and circulated in
bookstores, mosques, even prisons. Thus, notwithstanding the extensive
whitewashing of the inherent prejudice within Islam in an attempt to portray
Jews and Christians as honored and protected "people of the book" (ahl
al-Kitab) rather than plain infidels, one of the central pillars of the
Islamic faith maintains that Jews and Christians are the "other" to
be avoided if one is to live by al-Wala wal-Bara.

In fact, Muslim
jurists are careful to make this distinction: Under Islamic rule, and only
under Islamic rule, are Jews and Christians to be considered ahl adh-Dhimma,
a protected group of second-class citizens designated as such because of their
connection to the "Book" (the Bible). When Jews and Christians reside
outside Islamic rule (as do Jews in the State of Israel), then they are no
longer ahl adh-Dhimma but infidels.[68]

The "Saved Sect"

Loving and hating for
the sake of Allah is not only mandated for members of other faith groups but
has an internal component as well. The practice of declaring other Muslims
infidel (takfir) due to insufficient piety is widely practiced by
Salafists and Wahhabis and used by jihadists to justify the use of violence
against other Muslims.

Jihadists frequently
point to a saying attributed to Muhammad:

This community will be
split up into seventy-three sects, seventy-two of them will go to Hell, and one
will go to Paradise, and it is the majority group.[69]

They, along with
Muslim fundamentalists, believe they are that "Saved Sect" (at-Ta'ifa
al-Mansura), the only group possessing the correct Islamic beliefs. The
concept of takfir, propounded by Ibn Abd al-Wahhab (founder of the
Wahhabist movement), includes the command that anyone who does not show
sufficient levels of wala (allegiance to his view of true Muslim belief)
and adequate bara (rejection of non-Muslims, including the wrong kind of
Muslims) is at risk of committing apostasy.[70]

The most important duties
of …[the Saved Sect] in this age are to wage jihad against the apostate
rulers who have changed the rules of Allah and who govern Muslims using
heretical man-made laws … the Salafi-Jihadists are at-Ta'ifa al-Mansura
who have been promised victory against its enemies and the enemies of Islam.[71]

The linkage to al-Wala
wal-Bara could not be made clearer on another popular jihadist Internet
forum:

Who are at-Ta'ifa
al-Mansura? Al-Bukhari says they are the people of knowledge. Other
scholars say they are Ahl al-Hadith [Sunna]. Al-Nawawi says: They are
those who enjoin good and forbid evil [al-Wala wal-Bara].[72]

The doctrine of al-Wala
wal-Bara is used to distance Muslims from infidels but at the same time to
identify other Muslims as being taghut (idolaters). As the Saved Sect,
Salafist-jihadist groups are believed to have the divine right to judge other
people's levels of observance and to kill them if necessary. Muslims have an
obligation to struggle against idolaters who do not follow what Allah has
revealed.

Labeling groups taghut
is at the heart of the jihadists' struggle against Muslim regimes that do not
comply with their Islamic conceptions, and the doctrine legitimizes their
terrorist attacks. In their view, this is grounded in a hadith:
"Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him."[73] Salafi-jihadists can accuse any ruler who implements a
political system that conflicts with their exact interpretation of Islam of
being takfir.[74]

Doctrine of al-Fitra

The doctrine of Fitra
encompasses the Islamic concept of human nature. Fitra is the natural
predisposition of all humans to recognize that there is but one God and, by
extension, to submit to His will. Islam is called Din al-Fitra, the
religion of human nature, because in the Muslim view, its laws and its
teachings are relevant to the entire universe and all human beings.

In line with this
doctrine is the belief that all of mankind is innately Muslim. All babies who
come into the world are born Muslim and only their inconsiderate or ignorant
parents have changed their religion. The supposed proof for this view comes
from the Old and New Testaments: All Jewish and Christian patriarchs and
prophets were actually Muslims who preached Islam from the outset, and who
clearly testified that Muhammad is the messenger of God and the "Seal of
all Prophets."

Thus, Abraham is said
to have prayed, "Make us submit, oh Allah to your will"[75] while Jacob's sons later declare: "We shall worship
your Allah and the Allah of Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac, the one and only
Allah, and to him we submit."[76] Moses is said to have exclaimed: "O my people, if
you do believe in Allah place your trust in him if you are obedient. They
answered: We have placed our trust in Allah."[77]

The appropriation of
biblical figures into the fold of Islam extends further to Christianity. Mary
is told that Jesus will declare,

Surely Allah is my
Lord and your Lord, therefore serve Him; this is the right path. But when Jesus
perceived unbelief on their part, he said, who will be my helpers in Allah's
way? The disciples said: We are helpers (in the way) of Allah: We believe in
Allah and bear witness that we are submitting ones.[78]

Like the church
fathers who scoured the Old Testament for proofs that Jesus Christ had been
foretold by the prophets, Muslim exegetes also find testimony to Muhammad and
his truth in the Old and the New Testaments. The biblical promise to one day
raise up another prophet for the Children of Israel[79] is interpreted as
foretelling the coming of Muhammad as the "seal" of all prophets.[80] The Song of Moses found in Deuteronomy 33:2—"The
Lord came from Sinai and dawned over them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount
Paran"—is similarly reinterpreted: Sinai is said to be the place where
Moses received the Taurat (Torah), Seir the place where Jesus received
divine revelation while Paran is a mountain range in the area of Mecca where
God manifested himself to mankind for the last time through his revelation to
Muhammad.[81] Muslim exegetes also quote Isaiah 42:1-4, Psalms
72:8-17, and Micah 4:1-2 as further proofs of Muhammad's prophethood and
superiority.[82]

On the face of it, Fitra
would seem to contradict the understanding of al-Wala wal-Bara. Al-Wala
wal-Bara is divisive; Fitra is inclusive. Al-Wala wal-Bara
rejects the other: Fitra annexes the other. However, a close examination
demonstrates that Fitra affirms the practical application of the former
through a totalist approach. Both understand the world as being under the sway
of Allah and the superiority of Islam as being evident. The Fitra
doctrine is intended to prove Islam's superiority by declaring that the innate
religion of all mankind (as testified to by both Old and New Testament prophets
in words and deeds) is the religion embodied in Muhammad's message. All other
faith-systems are hence inferior. This is precisely what is advanced by the al-Wala
wal-Bara doctrine—drawing near to Allah's word and rejecting all that He
hates—especially the corrupted beliefs of the other.

Conclusion

The doctrine of al-Wala
wal-Bara is critical to understanding the Islamic world-view and its
perception of the other as it is second only to attesting to tawhid, the
oneness of God, for the faithful. Faith is incomplete without it, and it is the
criterion used to distinguish between believers and the enemies of Islam. Tawhid
will never be achieved on earth until believers apply al-Wala wal-Bara
through adherence to Muhammad's way of life (as-Sirat al-Mustaqim).[83]

Since it is the
deepest Islamic obligation to have all recognize the truth of Muhammad's
message, it is a Muslim duty to impose Shari'a on humanity. The infidels who
resist Islam are thus responsible for the persistence of violence and the
absence of world peace. It is they who force Muslims to take defensive measures
to protect the truth of Islam through jihad, if necessary.[84] Submission is the only solution to world peace, and it
is in the best interest of humanity for the other to lose his otherness. This
self-image helps explain why multitudes of Muslims react violently at almost
every situation in which the honor of their prophet or their faith seems to be
belittled while simultaneously complaining of being victims of oppression, aggression,
racism, and the new and custom-made bête noir, "Islamophobia."

David Bukay is a lecturer in the school of political science at the
University of Haifa.